Bonnie morning ....
11th
May 2020 (Monday) 06.30 .... The garden thermometer is at 2c and
we have a
brisk northerly breeze so it is cold but bonnie with a few fluffy clouds coming
down on the wind. I'm having a cuppa
before going making my mind up whether to go out on the bike now or later. The temperature is forecast to reach a high
of 11c today but wind chill will take a couple of degrees off that. Nice morning though.
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| Elie Bay this morning. |
09.30 It is a ‘cold on the lugs’ morning but
absolutely stunning. I have been for the papers and at the
harbour... and collected a few photographs on the way. A few
more clouds, mostly of the cotton wool kind, have drifted down from the
Northwest ... I guess there might be some light showers later in the afternoon/evening. I’ll
go and make my morning coffee then contemplate the ironing: that’s about as far as I get with that job just
now. It will take rain to get me
actually doing the ironing.
15.30 I have been a busy boy; having watered Chris and Barbara’s tubs, been
out on the bike again (to the 11th tee), had a couple of cuppas and ‘50’ in the
Hutte. I’d go out on the bike again but
the battery is charging so I’ll admire and have a conversation with the cactus’s....
and have yet another cuppa instead. Marcia wandered down Ferry Road with the dogs
and told me that Irene and Ken were out in their garden so, when I’d finished
with Barbara’s floo’ers, I went and hindered them (no' the floo'ers .... Ken and Irene).
It’s been a lovely day up till now but I see
heavier looking clouds creeping over from the Northwest and they’re beginning
to obscure the sun; the wind has
moderated a bit but there’s a cold air when the sun disappears behind the aforementioned clouds. |
| Elie High Street. |
19.00 Once again we’ve had a nice day albeit
cold, and I have taken advantage of it and managed to leave the ironing for ‘another
day’. I did a wee bit of work in the
greenhouse; I spoke to the cactus’s. Other than that I have had a quiet day...
having been out on the bike twice. I’m
taking heaps of photographs just now because we have what I’m calling ‘New
Zealand light’.... very little pollution in the atmosphere so
plenty clean
light. Once the Northern Hemisphere
factories get fired up, and planes start flying again, things will soon get back to ‘normal
UK’ pollution levels.
21.30 It looks like being another ‘nae bad’ day again tomorrow though light showers are mentioned for later in the afternoon. I’ll go out on the bike in the morning. ‘M’ was saying that New Zealand is going down to Status 2 lockdown on Thursday; though older people will still have to take precautions. Meanwhile we have to ‘stay alert’ .... ye gods it’s hard enough for me to ‘stay awake’ half the time never mind ‘alert’.
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| Earlsferry High Street. |
21.30 It looks like being another ‘nae bad’ day again tomorrow though light showers are mentioned for later in the afternoon. I’ll go out on the bike in the morning. ‘M’ was saying that New Zealand is going down to Status 2 lockdown on Thursday; though older people will still have to take precautions. Meanwhile we have to ‘stay alert’ .... ye gods it’s hard enough for me to ‘stay awake’ half the time never mind ‘alert’.
